The official Arab position is the continuation of the Jordanian one: ethnically cleanse Jews from Judea and Samaria. The land is not legally ‘Palestinian’. Its status is disputed with no prior sovereign. A demand that it end up with zero Jews isn’t reversing an illegal transfer. It is a demand to clear an area of one ethnoreligious group. The ICJ’s complicity is glaring and deserves to be named.
The new draft constitution of the Palestinian Authority presented in February this year, which designates Sharia as the primary source for legislation, affords protections to Christians, but accordingly falls silent on Jews.
What most Westerners do not understand because of the opacity of int’l law is that the Int’l Court of “Justice” in essence calls for this, but elides the nature of the crime against humanity via technicalities, classifying the land as occupied without adjudicating title yet demanding the removal of over half a million Jews from their homes under the color of law “as rapidly as possible.”
When the Court knowingly enjoins itself via a facially neutral international rule with a Palestinian position dating it by many years that is not facially neutral, the product, in the actual world with the actual parties, lands on Jews and Jews alone. “It’s status, not ethnicity” describes one card in a grotesque game of three card monte.
That, to anyone who sees the machinations of the system, is what is striking about the “ethnic cleansing” accusations against Israel: that they are being made in the mirror and smack of laws and procedures under the color of legitimacy that preceded mass persecution of Jews in Europe, that are now openly advanced by the same legacy powers with obsessive selectivity in the very system that succeeded the one ripped to the ground in the wake of World War II.
It really does not matter if the broader publics fully grasp the arguments and exegesis involved. What is important is that they are aware that indeed many Jewish Israelis see this quite clearly, that the legal framing now does work that ordinary morality would never and should never permit, and they are up in arms, ready, willing and able to fight to defend themselves.
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